上班 shàngbān▶ estar de servicio

Stroke order

上班 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 上 — 3 strokes
• 班 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. to go to work
2. to be on duty
3. to start work
4. to go to the office

Example sentences

• 爸爸早上上班。Bàba zǎoshang shàngbān.Dad goes to work in the morning.
• 你几点上班？Nǐ jǐ diǎn shàngbān?What time do you start work?

Related words

• 早上mañana
• 晚上noche
• 上arriba
• 班clase
• 上午mañana
• 上网Navegar por Internet

上班 is pronounced shàngbān and means “estar de servicio”. It belongs to the HSK 2 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 上班 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.